HANGER:• (n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.• (n.) That by which a thing is suspended.• (n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is
suspended.• (n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs.
See Illust. of Countershaft.• (n.) A bridle iron.• (n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the
side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.• (n.) A steep, wooded declivity.